The worst job I had was supermarket cashier. No break, no ladies room all day (8 hours) and yes it was a union shop. I called the union they did nothing
2006-09-09 14:21:08 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Actually was my first ever computer job.
I was in my 3rd ever semester in college...
and I was looking to get into Computer Operations or Programming (either as intern or trainee,etc).
Was hired specifically by a classmate who claimed he would train me in Computer Operations.
In fact, he needed more bodies for clerical research on credit card receits, and instead hired a classmate who had "C" avg .
I was then a perfect "A"..
Reason the "C" student got into operations had to do with him being black... This company was CISCO CREDIT (1979).
I left the job by not showing up the following MOnday, and walked accross the street to AMOCO OIL, and was hired on the spot
and at twice the pay already.
The hiring manager at CISCO called and wondered...and I was honest and told him why.
BTw, at this new rate I was making more than he was.
Me a lowely new C.O and him a 10yr veteran manager.
2006-09-12 11:25:16 · answer #1 · answered by pcreamer2000 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The worst job I ever has was as a hog belly skin packer.
It was at a bacon plant. A guy would feed the semi-frozen hog bellies through a skinner that would cut the skin right off the flesh. The leathery skin would fall into a metal tray about a foot off the floor. I spent a whole summer squatting by that tray catching the hog belly skins and then packing then in a box of 40 lbs. each. They were shipped off to make gelatin and God knows what else.
It was the wettest greasiest job I ever had. I smelled like a greased pig at the end of every day. The temp in the room was kept at about 45 degrees to keep the meat cold. So there I was in a pair of rubber boots catching literal pig skins with fat and grease all over me. It was disgusting!
2006-09-09 15:30:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was a row boat salesperson during a drought season. I sold these boats on a lake. When the lake dried up, I would have to lug the boat a good 30 feet through mud to get it into the water. then I'd have to row around the algae and it would get all tangled up in my oars and it would be so hard to keep smiling for the customer watching from shore.
the worst part was when all the turtles would lay there eggs in the shore area and then the mud, and I could feel all the little eggs popping under my feet as I drug boats back and forth. They were slippery too!
EDIT: Just give it to Blood Tunnel guy, okay?
2006-09-09 14:32:59 · answer #3 · answered by turtle girl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had sooo many horrible jobs in my teens/early 20s...fortunately, I had the good sense and the bad attitude to quit after a couple of weeks at each one. I worked at Hooter's in college...only because a friend of mine wanted to and thought we would make a TON of tips. Wrong...it was the slowest Hooters in the district. Cleaning up chicken grease for $2.13 an hour while wearing a degrading outfit for a bunch of white trash clientele proved not to be so glamorous after all.
I worked for a department store which was alright for a while, until they got this new store manager...this infuriating little man that everyone called Napoleon because of his 5'1 stature and his condescending disposition. What a pig! He went out of the way to push everyone's buttons and step over the line on a personal level, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone had him killed.
I've got a ton more, but you get the point!
2006-09-09 15:10:10 · answer #4 · answered by NA 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Working at the hog truck wash was pretty brutal. The trucks would unload all the hogs (pigs) at the slaughter plant down the street and it would be up to the workers here at the truck wash to clean the trailers that is layered with hog manure. The stench was so bad that most guys use heavy-duty masks and an industrial sanitizer wash/shower after work to get rid of the smell.
2006-09-09 14:53:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Working assembling stuff standing 8 hours a day in a metal building (no A/C & few fans) in August (101 degrees on an indoor thermometer) listening to bitter divorced women trash men, while I was trying to work out my marriage to a cheater.
End of tale: I quit & I got divorced!
2006-09-09 14:25:27 · answer #6 · answered by mustanglynnie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Worst Job I ever had was working 3rd shift in a Gas station , working every weekend, and Holiday. for 4 years straight
Until the company came in and close the station down, due to company progress
2006-09-09 14:37:17 · answer #7 · answered by Littlebigdog 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
serving food at a retirement resort, it was a 2 hour shift and you got paid by the minute for any thing over that
most days it was just me that showed up to work, most girls would just quit after 1 shift or walk out half way
the managers were almost 70 years old
I will never live in a retirement resort...hot dogs? was an example of one supper i had to serve
these poor old folks were paying up to 3000.00 a month for this?
and usually had to wait up to an hour to get fed.
2006-09-09 21:15:45 · answer #8 · answered by Button Face 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The worst job I've ever had was working on a chicken farm cleaning "flats" which are the 4 foot square plastic trays the baby chicks are delivered in, they are covered in chicken crap and you clean them with a scrub brush and a hose. the smell never comes out of your clothes.
2006-09-09 14:42:00 · answer #9 · answered by boonha2001 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Working for a "Napoleon" man, who called himself by his initials, who was my friend/ roommate's father...
Job Title: Commercial Artist for a SofTag (keytag) company.
Duties: Make coffee for the boss, clean up customers' bad artwork, if they had an example, otherwise search for logos, make negatives, clean them up with ink, etch the designs onto metal plates (using this antique acid bath machine (SO dangerous), Take my turn at the hot stamp machine (again, antique...clink,clank,BONK,clink, clank, BONK), smell the acetone from the dipping room that my poor roommate had to work in, deliver boxes to be shipped at UPS, no A/C, having to put up with this MAN, who was 5" tall (1 inch shorter that me) ,toupeed, who puffed arrogantly on a pipe, smirked and said derogatory things all day, all for $2.30 an hour (then minimum wage)...after I had had enough and quit and split with my roommate and everything over it, he had middle-age crisis, got him a bimbo, and a convertible sports car, and crashed it and was killed. The end.
2006-09-09 16:50:24 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋